- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Tom's wife goes in search of Old Scratch without Tom. She takes with her the most valuable things in the house - "the silver teapot and spoons," along with whatever else might be tempting to the devil.
This is another darkly comic passage - as Tom's wife fails to return home he becomes "uneasy" for her, "especially" when he discovers that she's stripped the house of valuables. Tom misses his household goods much more than he misses his wife. Greed has destroyed their human relationships. It has made Tom's wife strip her family home bare in an attempt to attract…